Chapter 2
Stephanie woke up in a hopspital bed. "Ohh." she moaned.
"Steph, you're awake." Hunter said as he rushed over to her.
Stephanie wiped the top of her forehead, with her hand.
"Awake, Oh, my God, what happened?" Stephanie said, noyt remembering a thing. Hunter stroked her cheek. "You passed out." Hunter said. "After the fight"
"Fight?...oh, that's right...with Trish." Stephanie said.
"Yeah, did she hurt me!" Stephanie asked. "No, don't worry, you...you saw the teddy bear in the ground, in our office, and then you fainted." Hunter said, as he rubbed the top of her head, with his hand.
"God, I was so scared...I thought you were seriously hurt." Hunter said. "Am I?" Stephanie asked. "No, don't worry, but the doctor said that he did have some important news to tell us." Hunter said.
"Oh great." Stephanie moaned.
Just then the doctor came in.
"Ah... Mr. and Mrs. Helmsley." The doctor said as he read the top of the clip board of his patients.
"Yes, that's us." Hunter said. "You had sometjing to tell us?" Hunter said.
"Umm, yes that's right, just a diagnose on your physical behavior, as well as mental...we considered your symptoms, and ran some tests, and...by the way you're pregnant, now here's some medication, to take twice a day, to keep your blood presure down..." the doctor said, as Hunter interupted him.
"Woa, back up, she's what!" yelled Hunter.
"Oh, yes, I'm sorry, you have to excuse me I've said this to 100 wemon all day, Mrs. Helmsley,the reason, why you kept imagining this person's face, is not because you're going crazy, it's because you're pregnant, and day dreams and wild imagination, is a common thing in pregnancy, that would also, explain, the vomitting, dizzyness, and aggression, that's why you slapped your co-worker, and all that stress just kept..." The doctor went on, and on!
"I'm pregnant!" Stephanie yelled.
"Noooooo." the doctor said in sarcasm.
"Well, I'm going to leave you two alone for a second, and Mrs. Helmsley, you can go home today...but NO more fighting, you here!" ordered the doctor, as he left.
"Oh my God." Stephanie said as she touched her stomach.
Pregnant?
She was going to have a baby?
This was great right.
"We're going to have a baby!" whispered Hunter as he got up, and he laid his hand on Stephanie's, stomach on the baby.
Stephanie cried a tear.
This was the happiest moment of her life, and she knew Hunter felt the same way.
"You know this day, started out to be one of the worst in my life, but come to find out, it's the best day of my life." Hunter said, as he kissed Stephanie. She kissed him back passionetly,
and smiled, brightly.
She was so lucky, to have a husband, like Hunter, now there would stop...or would they?
"And you're the best husband in the world." Stephanie said, as the coupel passionetly kissed, again.
Later that night
"So, can you feel it at all?" Hunter asked Stephanie as the two were in their king sized bed,of their huge mansion as Hunter wrapped his arms around Stephanie stroking her stomach.
She laughed.
"Well that tickles, but, no, I can't feel anything, I would have never known I was pregnant, If I hadn't been to the doctor." Stephanie said.
Hunter continued to stroke her stomach.
It felt so good, for him, to have his arms, aound her, she was his only comfort at night. "You know, Sean and Tori have no idea, how good this feels, they would be great parents." Hunter said. He hate the fact that Sean would not be able to experiance this feeling, and might not even have a bilogical child togther.
"Yeah, especially Tori...wow, I can't beleive we're going to be parents, there's so much stuff we have to do, I can't beleive I'm going to be someone's mother, this is so weird." Stephanie said, still in shock from her doctor's annoucment, earlier that night.
"Yeah..." Hunter started.
"Which reminds me, Steph, I hate to bring this up during a happy moment, but I want this whole Kurt Angle situation solved, before the baby is born, and hopefully before your 5th month, I don't want to put any stress on you." Hunter said.
Stephanie hated to hear him say that, but she knew he was right, there was no point in bringing their child into a world, of haterd, and death.
"Well, I guess that would be a wise decision, but how are we supposed to figure out what happened?" Stephanie said, as she turned to face her husband.
Hunter sighed.
"We'll just have to be at the grave yard, with the police, everyday, untill they can figure out something...I'm hoping,I'm praying, that they just marked the tombstone wrong, and that there is no problem." Hunter said, holding his wife close to him.
"No, that would be too easy." Stephanie said.
Hunter chuckled.
"You're right babe, we do live in a in like a soap opera don't we?"Hunter said.
"Oh yes." Stephanie said.
Then there was silence.
"I wonder what our baby will look like." Stephanie said breaking the silence.
"Well, he or she will have your eyes, my hair, you face, and my attitude." Hunter said.
Stephanie sighed a, imagining her baby. "That just rolls off the tounge 'our baby'." Stephanie said in amazment.
"I know." Hunter said.
"But I want you to know that this is not going to slow us down, I'm going to keep traveling with the WWF up into my 9 month, then we can have a doctor travel with us, and for the first 5 years, we can pay a nanny and just bring the baby with us." Stephanie said, explaining her plan, for the baby's first five years.
Hunter sighed a sigh of releif.
Stephanie read his mind, he was glad, that Stephanie did not want to slow down. He was not one to be tied down, and Stephanie knew it.
But she tried to ignore that, as she tried to drift asleep with Hunter.
That's the only thing that scared Stephanie, they had only been married for 4 months. That and the fact that she had a feeling in the pit of her stomach that something terribly wrong was going to happen...she just didn't know what.
Tuesday
"Ok, so what about, Candace, and we can call her Candy for short, for a girl?" Stephanie said.
"Oh, no Candy sounds like a hooker's name...how about red roses, for the flowers?" Tori asked Stepahanie.
It was early that next day, and Sean and Tori had come over, to vistit their best friends, like always.
While Hunter and Sean went to the gym, Stephanie and a Tori were sitting around, with like a hundread copies of 'Name your Baby', and 'Wedding Planner' magazines, books, and news paper clippings everywhere.
Tori was thinking about decorations for her wedding, and Stephanie was tring to pick names for her and Hunter's baby.
The two sat on the leather sofa, flipping pages, and suggesting things to each other, and seeing what the other has to say.
"Well, I think that red roses sre over rated, but if you use yellow or pink roses for your wedding, that would be original." Stephanie said, as she marked off Candace, from her possible names list.
"Ok, I know I can make the brides maid's dresses, yellow, to match the roses." Tori said as she wrote that down under her wedding plans.
"OMG, what if it's a boy?" Stephanie said.
"What about it?" Tori said, looking through a wedding magazine.
"I haven't thought about any boy names." Stephanie shrieked.
"Calm down, what about Hunter Hearst Helmsley Jr." Suggested Tori.
"That's an excellent idea, Tori, you're a genious!" said Stephanie as she wrote down the name.
"Oh, you know what, I just thought of something, we should have your wedding shower, and my baby shower in like one big shower." Stephanie said.
"That's a great idea...but wait, what kind of decorations would we put up?" Tori asked.
"Both, for a wedding, and a baby." said Stephanie.
"No, you're the genious!" Tori said, as she wrote down the plans for her wedding shower.
"This is going to be so much fun!" said Tori.
"I know, aren't you excited!" said Stephanie.
Just then Roaddog and Billy came in from the pool house.
"What's up, guys, Stephanie, Victoria!" Billy said, as he came in and gave Tori and Stephanie hugs.
"Steph, how's my favorite mommy?" Billy asked, as he kissed her on the cheek.
"I'm just fine." Stephanie laughed.
Tori wanted to scream, why was everyone making such a big deal over Stephanie's baby? Now she didn't want to sound bitchy, but the truth was, she was jealous.
She wanted a baby, so bad, now that she had seen Stephanie, and now he had given all that up, for nothing.
She wondered what her baby would have looked like...if she had never aborted it.
And obviously, Roaddogg and Billy had known about the abortion, so why were they being so insensitive...or was it just her?
Suddenly Hunter and Sean came back in, through the back glass door.
" what's up family?" Hunter said, as he laid his gym bag down on the ground, next to X-pac's.
"hey, baby!" Hunter said as he went over to Stephanie and kissed her.
"Hey, Tori." X-pac said, as he went over to the sofa, and pulled Tori into his lap.
"What are you guys doing?" he asked.
"I'm glad you asked, we decided that we were going to have a baby and wedding shower in one big shower." Stephanie said.
"That's a great idea baby." Hunter said
"Thank you...did the police call today, Hunter?" Stephanie asked.
"Yeah, and they found nothing." Hunter said.
Stephanie sighed.
"Well, in the mean time, can we get something to eat before we go to Smackdown, I'm starved." Billy said.
They all laughed.
Was Billy always hungry?
"Yeah, let's go to that new french resturant, down the street." X-pac said.
"Cool, just let me change." Stephanie answered as she got up, and went into her bathroom, with Tori.
Soon, the six of them were ready to go, so they left to go to the resturant. They had alot of fun, they talked and eat, and even met some new friends, and signed a few autographs, from the fans that were in the resturant.
"Well, guys, it's been real, but It's 6:00pm, and I promised that I would meet a friend at the library, she needed to talk to me." Stephanie said as she pulled on her jacket, and grabbed her purse.
"Steph, you're coming to Smackdown! aren't you?" Hunter asked.
"Of coarse...I'll just be a little late, but don't worry, I'll be ok." Stephanie assured her husband, who she could tell did not like the idea of her going anywhere alone, now that she was pregnant.
"You better." Hunter said as he kissed her goodbye. "And don't saty a long, time, and call if you're going to be late." Hunter said being overprotective than usual.
"Don't worry." Stephanie said as she leaned over and Kissed Hunter in his chhek, telling him not to worry about her.
"I'll see you at the arena, guys," Stephanie said, as she waved goodbye to her friends, and left in her car, to the library.
The library was spooky at night, which is one reason, she didn't want to come, the last reason was because, her friend Tabitha, had said she had bad news for her.
great that was the last thing thatb Stephanie wanted to hear, but she figured, it can't get any worse, right?
There were only three cars there including, hers, and Tabitha, and it was starting to get dark, which frightened Stephanie even more.
As soon as she walked in the door, she saw Tabitha waiting for her, by the fiction books.
"What's up, what's wrong?" Stephanie said, smothing out the wrinkels in her skirt.
"You're not going to beleive this ok, but just listen...you need to get out of town, someone is after you!" she whispered.
"What?" Stephanie said.
"I'm serious, I was standing outside the arena last monday, waiting for you, and I heard that liitle slut you hate so much..." Tabitha started.
"Trish...Trish Stratus."Stephanie said.
"Yeah, her,and look, she was on her cell phone , and she said, and I quote 'Don't worry, the rest of the plan will fall into place once he's got her...he'll take care of her." Tabitha said.
"OMG, when did she say this?" Stephanie said.
"Monday...I just wanted to tell you to watch your back, she was totaly pissed off that you beat her up." Tabitha said.
"Well, thanks, TB, I'll um...I'll tell Hunter, once I get to the arena." Stephanie said.
"Alright, just be carefull, man these bithches aint' playing!" Tabitha loudly whispered, and hugged Stephanie.
"I will, but I have got to get back to the arena." Stephanie said.
"You want to walk out together?" Tabitha said.
"Um...acutually I'm going to have to return this book." Stephanie said holding one of the library's books.
"Alright call me later." Tabitha said as she left.
Stephanie returned her book, and then headed out to the parking lot, the freaky parking lot.
She looked around the parking lot, and started to sweat.
She was nervous.
Why was she so nervous all of a sudden?
Was Tabitha right about what she said?
She quickly pulled out her keys, so that she could just unlock her door, when she heard it, the sounds of footsteps, behind her, someone was flollowing her, someone was chasing her!
Or was it just her heart beat?
Stephanie turned around, and didn't find anyone.
She sighed, in reliefe."I'm just being paranoid." she said.
Then before she knew it she turned back around for a spit second, and felt, the burning sensation of a hand, across her mouth. Stephanie tried to scream, but she could not because of his hand, she tried to spit or bite him, but just made his grip, harder, and tighter.
She shook her whole body, tring to get away from the man, she struggled, and struggled, but he was just too strong for her, as he pulled her tiny body into his car.
And off they sped.
Stephanie screamed, and tried to cry, but the whole time, he kept yelling at her, to shut up, or he would kill her.
She tried to look up to see what he looked like if she got away, but she couldn't, he had on a black ski mask, that covered up his entire face, and a black sweater, black gloves, and black pants.
She cried even harder.
"That's it!" he yelled, as he stopped at a red light, he grabbed some tape from the back seat, and started to tape Stephanie's mouth shut, as well as her legs and arms.
She kicked him, spit at him, bit him, and even fought him, but it was no match for her strong attcker, who tied her up.
And she laid there in the passenger's side of the car.
Stephanie kept tring to remove the tape from her body but it was too tight, her tears, filled her eyes, so intensly that she could not see straight, and, the tape, around her throat was cutting off her serculation.
She couldn't move, she couldn't even fight back.
The only thing she could do was cry.
Where was he taking her?
Why was he doing it to her?
Was he going to rape her?
Kill her?
Maybe even both?
The fears, of the many questions, just made her cry more.
Finaly the car, going 100 miles per hour stopped, and Stephanie could feel the man, getting out of the car, and walking around to the passenger to her.
He opened the door, and and dragged her body out , as she continued to struggle, he threw her into his house, onto the cold carpet floor.
Then she smelled an odor, like one she had never smelt before, it ws the smell of cigaretts, but why was the smell so strong?
Instantly, Stephanie felt the man, drag her into a small room, with little light, that smelled even worse.
"Please...please, let me go." Stephanie whispered to the man.
But it made no difference, but made the man madder, as he yanked, and bruised her arms, legs, and stomach, as she refused to follow him, through the smelly house.
Stepahanie screamed, as loud as she could tring to wake up from her night mare, praying that someone would come and find her, or better yet, that Hunter would wake her up, in a few seconds, saying that she had had a bad dream, but it didn't. The man striked her over and over,with such force that, she thought she would pass out, right there on the floor.
"Oh, my baby." she said laying her hand over her stomach, to see if she could feel her baby's heartbeat, remembering, she realized that she was fighting a lousing battle, and she could be killing her baby...he could be killing her baby, she was not going to let that, happen, she had to be strong for herself and her baby.
So she decided not to fight back twards the man, it was not worth, losing her, and her baby's life.
Then she thought maybe if she told him she was pregnant, he would leave her alone, but then decided against it.
The man had cold eyes, eyes so cold, that they just spoke for themselves, and said 'I could kill you at any moment'
Stephanie felt the burning sensation, on her neck and shoot up her skull, from being hit so many times, by her attacker.
All of a sudden, her eyes, blurred up, and it was like they were paralyzed, she felt light headed, as she passed out, into a uncontious state.
The pain was just too much for her.
The man seeing she was uncontious, with her tiny body pulled out his cell phone and dialed a number.
"Patricia Stratus...it's done"
At the arena
"Tori, have you seen my wife?" Hunter yelled.He had been waiting for return since Smackdown started, and that was an hour and a half ago.
He knew she shouldn't have let her go out by herself, but he just didn't listen to his instincts.
"No, I'm sorry, Hunter, I was just going to ask you the same thing." Tori said. 'God, where are you Stephanie.' Tori thought.
"What you mean she's not back yet, and your match is up next, wow, she's never missed a show." X-pac said.
"I know I'm going to call her cell phone, maybe she's stuck in traffic or something." Hunter said, as he pulled out his phone, expecting to hear his wife's voice on the other end, to give him an explanation on where she was, but he was way off.
"I'll check and see if he is in the parking lot." Roadogg said, as he hurried with Billy to see if she had already gotten to the arena.
"Alright, and I'll look in the wemon's lockeroom." Tori said, as she left the DX lockeroom.
Hunter dialed Stephanie's cell phone.
It rang where she was.
Oh no, he the man heard it, he grabbed the phone from in Stephanie's pant's pocket, and threw it across the room.
It stopped ringing.
Just then Stephanine came to. And remembered where she was.
She hadn't heard the conversation, but she was pretty sure what she could do to get away from the man.
But did she have the strength?
Did her baby?
She had to find a way to get out, and she had to find a way, now.
There might not be, another oprituniyty.
End of Chapter 2
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